TP-Links excuse is really bad, I don't want to blame the FCC for any lock down (also critics can argue, that this was intentional), their rules don't imply that you have to lock down the router completely.
It is possible to technically fulfill the FCC rules while allowing alternative software. Of course this means, that the customer has to pay more. I'm sure the customer will pay more if there is a benefit.
If all manufactures lock down their stuff, then oss developers can just stop their work, you see a lot of companies depend on the work of opensource developers, e.g. if openwrt stops their work, thousands of companies have to do the dirty work of maintaining things themself, this raise their costs a lot more and have additional sde effects, less security etc.
Anyway this is a chance for other companies to make money with it. Just wait for all manufacturers to lock down their shit, then come up with a product, that complies with fcc, but allows modifications and suddenly all oss developers will work and improve your code, pretty smart.
Too much of drama reporting on this. There is no strong cryptographical lock in TP-Link firmware.
TP-Link tag their US firmware differently than the worldwide version so that US users can not flash the worldwide version.
not really, you'll have to inform yourself a bit more...
the new factory firmwares released by tp-link around the end of last year do not allow to flash back to previous versions of stock firmwares, nor they allow flashing of dd-wrt factory-to-ddwrt files, be that US or worldwide versions.
these new firmwares give error 18005, which is not the result of changed header or anything like that, it's some other type of "lockdown" method (the header hasn't changed in fact).
Too much of drama reporting on this. There is no strong cryptographical lock in TP-Link firmware.
TP-Link tag their US firmware differently than the worldwide version so that US users can not flash the worldwide version.
not really, you'll have to inform yourself a bit more...
the new factory firmwares released by tp-link around the end of last year do not allow to flash back to previous versions of stock firmwares, nor they allow flashing of dd-wrt factory-to-ddwrt files, be that US or worldwide versions.
these new firmwares give error 18005, which is not the result of changed header or anything like that, it's some other type of "lockdown" method (the header hasn't changed in fact).
I don't believe it until I see it myself and I have not seen any such lock.
That one user or two has problem with flashing doesn't mean that the firmware is locked. _________________ Kernel panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler!
Too much of drama reporting on this. There is no strong cryptographical lock in TP-Link firmware.
TP-Link tag their US firmware differently than the worldwide version so that US users can not flash the worldwide version.
not really, you'll have to inform yourself a bit more...
the new factory firmwares released by tp-link around the end of last year do not allow to flash back to previous versions of stock firmwares, nor they allow flashing of dd-wrt factory-to-ddwrt files, be that US or worldwide versions.
these new firmwares give error 18005, which is not the result of changed header or anything like that, it's some other type of "lockdown" method (the header hasn't changed in fact).
I don't believe it until I see it myself and I have not seen any such lock.
That one user or two has problem with flashing doesn't mean that the firmware is locked.
Which is a Linksys device and not TP-Link.
Not being able to downgrade has happened before (Netgear especially) but was always because of firmware format change and never intended as a region lock.
You do really grasp for any straw you see and make more of it than there actually is in it. _________________ Kernel panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler!
Which is a Linksys device and not TP-Link.
Not being able to downgrade has happened before (Netgear especially) but was always because of firmware format change and never intended as a region lock.
You do really grasp for any straw you see and make more of it than there actually is in it.
I really don't.. just pointing out the fact that an increasing number of devices are starting to be locked down one way or another.
Anyone know how to mod the region code to load EU firmware on a US unit?
What exact router model and what is the current firmware on it ? _________________ THERE ARE NO STRANGERS HERE; ONLY FRIENDS YOU HAVEN'T YET MET.
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Anyone know how to mod the region code to load EU firmware on a US unit?
What exact router model and what is the current firmware on it ?
I just picked up the TP-Link RE450/Canada model - uses US firmware, can't load the EU version of the firmware which has more functionality (i.e. Access Point). Pretty it's running RE450(US)_V1_151203_US.
